Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice. CrunchBase Information.

Social Media 59

Social Media Analytics Software Review Austin 59

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

I’ve known Holly since her time as VP of Marketing at Service Metrics, a company in which I was an investor in the late 1990′s and was a huge Boulder success story when they were acquired in 1999 by Exodus for $280 million. I met Rusty more recently, a few years ago when he was just starting TheBlogFrog.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Metrics Hosting Engineer 124

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. The industry had to wait for about 4 years to have a new genius disrupting the industry of CRM.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). Do you recall how much seed funding Reid provided in the beginning (or how much total capital was invested before the VCs came in)?

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics.

Stock 48

Stock Vesting Japan Algorithm 48

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 17, 2015

Firstly this table comparing 1999 and 2014 on key bubble-related metrics. Earlier this week Benedict Evans/Andreessen Horowitz published a great deck with their thoughts on whether we are in a bubble or not. The whole thing is well worth a read, but two slides stood out for me.

IPO 60

IPO Early Stage Valuation Metrics 60

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

The problem has been that many LPs lost money in European venture in the 1999-2000, were nervous about making the same mistake again, and wondered if there was a structural reason why venture capitalists seemed to be less successful here than in the US. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

Private Equity 92

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Europe 92

OnlyOnce

MARCH 11, 2021

1999 wasn’t the dark ages, but it feels like a different millennium in terms of what it’s like to start a technology company from scratch. This time around, our team is significantly more focused on critical stage-gate success metrics. It’s much easier to build a startup today. We are sharper on execution and impatient for success.

API 48

API Cloud Metrics Mobile 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

Seattle 136

Seattle New York Metrics Demand 136

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Like him, many retail investors were drawn into nonstop television coverage and headlines that were (to me, scarily) reminiscent of 1999. He had long ago sold his BTC at a loss and forgotten about it. When CNBC walked its viewers through an XRP purchase I knew we were near the top of that cycle.

SEC 45

SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Do you have other efficiency metrics that you look at when you evaluate businesses to check the quality of growth and the quality of the revenues? . You can break that down to revenue retention because different types of models, whether subscription, usage-based, or transactional, will have different retention metrics. . Yeah, yeah.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2015

If you do a bunch of shitty momentum deals as fast as you can, you are simply emulating what most VC firms (including the one I was part of) did in 1999 when we committed an entire $600 million fund in nine months. At one point that fund was up over 2x on paper (TVPI for those of you that like names for the different VC metrics.)

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital New York Silicon Valley IPO 70

OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. Startup Metrics: Making Sense of the Numbers in Your Startup. Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!). Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur.

New York City 83

New York City Startup New York Community 83

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. A company can validate its growth metrics, Bullpen believes, in as little as four to six months after its initial funding periods. "There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

When they get customers, they are told to show engagement metrics. When they show engagement metrics, they are told to run some monetization experiments. In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

IPO 44

IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. But a few constants remain.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Venture Chronicles

MAY 10, 2010

I sat in on one session focused on online mobile marketing and was interested to learn how ad buyers still have not shifted away from pageview metrics for ad buying, in other words despite a sea shift in evolution in how consumers interact with online services the agency ad buyers are stuck in 1999.

Mobile 43

Mobile Flash Early Stage Metrics 43

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

IPO “over-subscription” has also become a vanity metric for the bankers and the issuing company. Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). Somehow this is more honest.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Has the U.S. Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” 2015 was the exact opposite.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

While this is indeed the metric that matters most to shareholders, its not terribly useful as a measure of productivity, especially daily or hourly productivity. ” The Promise of Sleep by Dr. William Dement & Christopher Vaughn, DTP, 1999, ISBN 0-440-50901-7. Either the game ships and sells — or it doesnt.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’ve been founding and helping run technology companies since 1999. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. Fab.com Bradfords Blog Fab Feed. 57 Things I’ve Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies. My latest company is fab.com. Here are 57 lessons I’ve learned along the way. Jason is a product guy.

Post-Money Valuation 92

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Dowding 1957, p.5; Typographical features.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the 6 most important factors in building trust with an eCommerce company are : Brand. They also say in the report that Page Speed “affects every conceivable business metric” and can influence everything from customer satisfaction to customer retention.

Conversion 112

Conversion Design Caching eCommerce 112

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And so the other reason that I am very interested in delving deep into this space is that it seems like IPOs like Workday, Palo Alto Networks are sort of — they have metrics and analytics that Wall Street understands, more so than a Facebook; like “We are going to sell X number of this in the next year.”

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets. Increase traffic.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Audience Prospectus 76